I Became an Academy Mechanic Genius chapter 9

9 – Why Elena is excited

“There is something you must keep in mind.”

Elena’s personal training room.

I looked into her serious eyes and nodded.

She stared at me with a complicated expression for a while, then sighed and continued.

“First of all, you are an unofficial disciple. In principle, since I am the teacher of the princess, it is impossible for me to accept you as a disciple.”

Of course you will.

According to the imperial law, a teacher of the imperial family is only allowed to have that imperial family as a disciple.

This is because it cannot be tolerated that someone other than the imperial family is an alumnus of the imperial family.

“Yes. I’ll keep that in mind. I will not reveal this to anyone.”

Therefore, for Elena to accept me as a disciple, it would be a significant risk.

If this was discovered, he could be expelled from the imperial family.

“Hu, then shall we sort things out first? No matter what, I ended up being a priest.”

title.

In fact, from the first time I met her, I was uncomfortable with the name.

In the game, I always used honorifics for her, and she treated me badly.

“Yes, take it easy. It’s uncomfortable for me to be called high by a status like a professor.”

“Well. It was a bit formal, though. It happened because you didn’t seem like a normal person.”

She murmured and warmed up.

A blue haze rose from her body.

It is to do mana conversion.

“Then, I’ll just call you Ed from now on.”

“Yes.”

“Training will be difficult, so be prepared. You’re naturally incapable of handling mana, so you’ll have to put in a lot more effort than others.”

“I know.”

As Elena said, I am naturally incapable of handling mana.

The reason why I can handle mana now is all thanks to ‘engineering thinking’, and without this trick, I wouldn’t have been able to handle mana forever.

“Then I’ll go in a rather ignorant way. First, let’s find the ‘road’.”

road?

Before I could ask what it was, she reached out and put it on top of my head.

And at the same time, a tremendous pain shook my head.

“Quaaa!!!”

A broken head that hurts.

It’s like waking up in the morning with a headache after binge drinking the night before.

“Engrave this pain clearly. Because where you feel pain is the way mana flows.”

But there was a reason why she was giving me this pain.

It was to increase the mana capacity by extremely stimulating the nervous system that accommodates mana.

Finally, Elena removed her hand and said.

“It holds up well.”

“hahahaha···”

“Now then, try mana conversion. There will be pain, but it will definitely be different from before. Because I have pierced all the way.”

As she said, the quality of mana conversion will be different from before.

Because the nervous system where mana enters is extremely stimulated, the senses there are sensitive.

It was as if the muscles that were not used were stimulated and became sensitive.

“Ha ha… ha ha… I, but, Master…”

However, I couldn’t convert mana according to her instructions.

It’s because I’m doing mana conversion as a trick using ‘engineering thinking’, so I can only succeed if I do mana conversion while looking directly at my body in the mirror.

“I… Haa… Whoa… I need a mirror to do mana transmutation.”

So I told her my penalty.

Elena put on a thoughtful expression for a moment, then nodded in response.

“···Well. As expected, it seems that there are conditions attached to awakening mana at that age. Should I look in the mirror?”

“Yes. The reason I found my master is because I want to do mana conversion while removing this condition.”

“···yes. okay. Then hold on.”

After that, she turned into blue smoke and disappeared.

However, he appeared with a full-length mirror in an instant, and said as he set up the mirror in front of me.

“Is this okay?”

“Yes. Enough.”

“great. Then start mana conversion. Let’s start by figuring out how much your mana capacity is.”

I started mana conversion according to her instructions.

Every time mana entered through his head, he felt bitterness like pouring salt water into his wounds all over his head.

‘But I know for sure.’

But as much as I felt the pain, my senses were sharper.

I could definitely feel the mana coming through my head.

Before long, Elena, who had been observing me quietly, joined me next to me and said,

“Certainly there are fewer receptors. Look at this.”

As she said that, a blue hologram appeared above her hand.

The hologram was shaped like a human head.

“It’s a model of your head. See the blue dots here? These dots are the number of receptors you can receive mana from.”

A blue dot inside the shape of a human head.

One, two, three, four, five… I saw about 150 blue dots.

Elena pointed out that there were exactly 167 and continued.

“But a normal mage has about 1700 mana receptors? But you are only about 1/10 of them. Only 167.”

····Well. After listening to it, there was definitely a comparison.

I was prepared to a certain extent, but I never thought it would make a big difference.

“The number of mana receptors is strength. The amount of mana that can be accumulated in the body, the ability to transfer mana to the body, the speed at which a spell is cast and the destructive power of the spell. All of them have different performance depending on the number of mana receptors.”

As Elena said that, a hologram in the form of a person appeared.

And he demonstrated how to use mana through a hologram in the shape of a person.

The mana receptors gathered in the brain spread out to the whole body and carried mana, and through this, the process of invoking the spell was realized.

“This is the performance of a wizard with about 1700 mana receptors. In contrast, you-”

Saying so, Elena launched a hologram containing 167 mana receptors.

And as before, he showed me how to use the spell.

The results were also disappointing.

“As you can see, the spells are slow to cast, ineffective, and even likely to fail. No matter how hard you try, there are bound to be limits.”

“…Is there any other way?”

“…”

Elena was silent.

He rested his chin and continued to think deeply.

Then she raised her head and said.

“Well. You’ve already missed the timing… That’s why it’s important to increase your mana receptors before you turn seven. It’s the only time humans can train their mana receptors. In fact, even if you manage mana, it should be considered a miracle.”

But Elena’s answer was also skeptical.

Even Elena, the master of magic and mana, had no suitable method.

Then she shook her head and murmured.

“Neither can. Unless it is a blue dragon that has a mana crystal inside its body and grows with it, all living things in this world are infancy—”

“Hey, wait a minute.”

However, I intercepted her subsequent words.

It’s because I got a hint from her casually uttered words.

“Ah, what did you say? What is a blue dragon?”

“…? Unless you’re a blue dragon, it’s hard to get out of infancy and grow mana receptors…”

·····Unless you are a blue dragon, is it difficult to get out of infancy and grow mana receptors?

That doesn’t mean that once I become the blue dragon, everything will be resolved.

Wouldn’t it be okay to embed mana stones into the body like the blue dragon?

He raised his head and said to her.

“… Master. Then how about I become a blue dragon?”

“…?”

However, Elena looked at me with a face that seemed to be bullshit.

I just said the conclusion in parentheses without any explanation, so I didn’t understand.

So I decided to add a more detailed explanation.

“So, it means that we will use Blue Dragon’s mechanism as it is. He intends to embed mana stones into his body to replace the mana receptors.”

“…”

However, even after adding an explanation, Elena’s expression was spectacle.

Now he’s looking at me like he’s looking at me like a madman.

“No, Ed… Growing mana stones in the body is possible because it is a blue dragon. It is impossible to implant mana stones into a person’s body. It is extremely harmful to the human body.”

Of course, what she said is true.

In fact, I tried grinding and eating mana stones and suffered from pain for several days.

However, I couldn’t give up just because it was harmful to the human body.

“So we have to find a way. Blue dragons are fine even with mana stones in their bodies. You just have to study why you can be so fine.”

I was confident in my research.

Because I have hidden skills and engineering thinking.

Even if you can’t do it, you will be able to dig up the secret of the blue dragon in a week.

“····hahahaha. You say you’re doing research… yes, then how are you going to do your research?”

“We have to catch and bring back the blue dragon.”

“Po, capture? Capturing the Blue Dragon…? hahahaha, Ed, the blue dragon is an extremely vicious creature. What a dragon. The person who can capture such ferocious creatures is within the Empire…”

However, while Elena was continuing her conversation, she suddenly blurted out behind her back.

It was because I was conscious of my gaze staring at myself.

She laughed as if it was absurd.

“Ha ha, can you? isn’t it?”

“Master.”

“Ah, you just became a teacher and a disciple, isn’t it?”

“Master, you can do it. You know how strong you are.”

“…”

Elena’s expression changed dramatically once again.

Her face seemed to have written ‘Well, there are all these guys’.

Then she laughed as if it was absurd.

“So you mean, I go to the blue dragon’s lair myself and capture the blue dragon? You want to give me, your teacher and archmage, such instructions, right?”

“Well. Rather than an instruction, it is a disciple’s earnest wish.”

“Puhahahaha. Do you think I will listen?”

“Yes.”

“Why?”

“You accepted me as a disciple. Even at the risk of violating the imperial law. That’s why the expectations are high on me.”

“…”

“Also, Master is a person with a strong spirit of inquiry. Enough to publish a paper every year in an academic journal. Therefore, I will satisfy Master’s spirit of inquiry. Honestly, aren’t you curious about a human who implants mana stones into his body and treats him like a blue dragon?”

“…”

Elena’s lips trembled.

A tremendous blue haze rose up around her body.

it is excited

“You… Really, it’s fun… The more you know, the more you know.”

Elena’s breathing quickened.

There is something abnormal in her eyes as she gazes deeply at me.

Receiving her gaze, I remembered a phrase.

It was one of the settings about Elena.

[Feels sexual desire for the person he thinks is the most talented.]

···Even thinking about it now, it’s like a dog psycho.

To be sexually attracted to the person you think is the most talented.

However, there was a reason why Elena had such a setting.

This is because her deep subconscious mind is based on the idea that ‘you must prepare for danger’.

And the surest way to prepare for that risk is to receive the seed of someone as talented as yourself and give birth to a child.

That is, it is an act of self-replication.

“Whoa… whoa… It’s fun… You’re going to roll your teacher carelessly like this.”

So, the look of Elena I see now is, in a way, familiar.

While playing ‘El Pandor Runterra’, it wasn’t once or twice that she was courted.

“Whoa… Yes, you saw me correctly. To be honest, I have very high expectations from you. It’s embarrassing, but there’s nothing I can’t do with a request from a cute disciple.”

However, it has not yet been fully recognized.

Seeing that it wasn’t to the extent of attacking me, it seems that it has stopped just enough to keep an eye on it.

“Then wait two days. Even if it’s impossible for an adult, I think I can catch a blue dragon that is still in its growth stage.”

“·····thank you.”

But there was a clear liking in her eyes as she looked at me.

Unlike before, her entire face was tinged with red, and a bewitching expression was permeated.

Although not fully appreciated, I was definitely one of her final options.

“Then, see you in two days.”

With those words, she disappeared as a blue mist.

And as soon as she was gone, I let out a long sigh.

It was because the memory of Elena trying to attack me flashed past.